Diablo 2 - Revival of a classic

[Professor Frink]

Just spent the last few days with Zadock, working on a Necromancer doing skeleton summoning and a couple o 'choice' curses, mainly weaken and decrepify! What an awesome character! The funniest I've built.
I have an army (currently) of 16 minions! 14 Skeletons, a golem, and a guard! when in party with Zadock's Paladin (Fanatic/zeal Paladin) nothing can stop us as the skeletons attack too fast!

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No one likes necro summons on Baal runs

[Zadock]

No one likes necro summons on Baal runs

Why is that? all that meat get in the way? I didn't have any problems, we're on nightmare with that combination now.

Much prefer magic characters to melee ones on diablo it less of a click fest when you've managed to find enough plus to skills kit to have 32 points in chain lightning

[Professor Frink]

In big groups like 5+ all the skeletons start to lag the game.

With just the two of you it shouldn't be too bad.

[Zadock]

We've not been playing on battlenet either, I've been hosting using TCP/IP. That probably helps to.

[MSIC]

OMG, I know this is a thread revival, but it seems appropriate.

"Ladies, Gentleman & Others.
My name is MSIC and I'm a Diablo 2 addict."

Yes, this bloody game got reinstalled a few weeks ago, and i've a brand new character that i've taken up to level 59 (at present)....
I swear that the latest patch (from this year) introduced some new Green kit, but as ever it's the gold stuff that I keep longing for. I have a body armour of 360, which is good for my level, but with a previous character I once had body armour with defence 550+, and i'm so keen to beat that.
Gotta keep looking, keep fighting, am not far off Act 5 of 'Nightmare' and then it's in to 'Hell'.
This game is too addictive!

[kalniel]

It is. D3 is already on pre-order

[scaryjim]

And there's always Torchlight to feed the jonesing inbetween

Actually, and I know this is probably heretical, I think I might prefer Torchlight to D2 I love that Warcraft III-ish cartoony style, and I really like the addition of a pet. But there's something about D2 that means I'll always go back to it from time to time - probably the fact that it will play on pretty much any hardware imaginable!

[MSIC]

I have Torchlight, and it is a good game I grant you, but the fact that I can take a single player d2 character and use it in a LAN game just pushes D2 into awesome (there's just something about spending the first part of a game saying "check out this ring!" "yes, but have you seen my latest hat...".
As an aside, when I did a thread search for diablo, and came across Scaryjims idea for a D2 LAN party I must admit to being tempted (did that happen BTW?) but then reality of wife and child and work kicked in. Oh well. Maybe in 10- 15 years I'll have the time.

[scaryjim]

Hasn't happened yet, but there's no reason why it still couldn't Bring the wife and kid and they can have a day out in Manchester while you hit things with sticks...

There's meant to be a Torchlight MMO coming at some point. Could be kind of interesting...

[kalniel]

http://www.torchlight2game.com/

Multi-player – Play with your friends over a local area network, or over the Internet. A free matchmaking peer-to-peer service lets you make new friends for exciting co-op play.

Announced.. er.. today I think.

[scaryjim]

Not what I was thinking of, but very interesting nonetheless The news screen for Torchlight on Steam has some info about a Torchlight MMO, but maybe that got canned in favour of introducing multiplayer into a single-player sequel...?

[kalniel]

Not what I was thinking of, but very interesting nonetheless The news screen for Torchlight on Steam has some info about a Torchlight MMO, but maybe that got canned in favour of introducing multiplayer into a single-player sequel...?

Nope it's still on the go, but they reckon it'll take some years so this is a stepping stone.

[scaryjim]

Ooooh, cool stuff